Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do . |
| 32 | I was hoping that my indecision might somehow communicate itself to The Fat Controller . |
| 33 | Joe Reynolds and Amy Winship might just find themselves with a long weekend ! ’ |
| 34 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 35 | Folly turned the card over and over in her hands , as if by her looking at it from another direction the words might mysteriously transpose themselves into the expected apology . |
| 36 | Eventually , if the body lay undisturbed for long enough , the skin might even detach itself from the body . |
| 37 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 38 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 39 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 40 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 41 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 42 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 43 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 44 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 45 | Planned tours aside , it 's just possible that all of the Brennan family could soon find themselves in the charts . |
| 46 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 47 | ( I should point out that I could not bring myself to a Japanese option ! ) |
| 48 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 49 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 50 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 51 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 52 | But German Romanticism could not sustain itself against the blandishments of urban existence , and as the nineteenth century progressed the movement lapsed into sentiment and kitsch — the absolute artistic opportunism that insisted on ‘ moving ’ people emotionally . |
| 53 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 54 | Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead . |
| 55 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 56 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
| 57 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 58 | The Scots could not rid themselves of the English . |
| 59 | Unhappy with the Steads , where she was beaten with a leather strap for wetting the bed , Ruth found a happier relationship with another family , but she could not rid herself of the insecurity . |
| 60 | She had her own shame , and could not rid herself of the guilt that came from loving a man who was not hers to love . |